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    Norfolk Landscapes: A colourful journey through the Broads, Brecks, Staithes and Churches of Norfolk
    Norfolk Landscapes: A colourful journey through the Broads, Brecks, Staithes and Churches of Norfolk
    Norfolk Landscapes: A colourful journey through the Broads, Brecks, Staithes and Churches of Norfolk
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    Norfolk Landscapes: A colourful journey through the Broads, Brecks, Staithes and Churches of Norfolk

    By Doug Kennedy

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    Norfolk is a very distinctive county, the most easterly in the British Isles. With the North Sea and The Wash to the east and north it is relatively close to the Netherlands, but Norwich is only a couple of hours by train from London. It has been a center of great political power, but is on no major transport routes, so has no motorways and has been largely bypassed by the Industrial Revolution. As a result, many of its towns and villages are relatively unspoiled, so have kept their old buildings and character and are a delight to visit. Although known for its wide open landscapes, of which there are many, Norfolk has an abundance of delightful corners and beautiful gardens where it is the miniature that charms and tranquillity reigns.
    This beautiful photo book captures the essence of Norfolk's varied landscapes in sumptuous images and an informative text that gets underneath the surface of why things look like they do. The Norfolk Broads, Breckland, The Waverley Valley, The Fens and the coastlines are explored in turn along with the wildlife you can encounter on the way. In addition, Norfolk's lovely churches that punctuate every view, and the distinctive traditional buildings that give each area its special flavor are featured.
    Doug Kennedy has roamed the County on foot and by boat, seeking out what makes each place special and applying his photographer's eye to capture the scene perfectly. It is a book for everyone who loves the Norfolk to treasure, and a splendid introduction to its landscape for those less familiar with a classic corner of England.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOxbow Books
    Release dateDec 31, 2015
    ISBN9781909686823
    Norfolk Landscapes: A colourful journey through the Broads, Brecks, Staithes and Churches of Norfolk
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    Doug Kennedy

    Doug Kennedy is a photographer and life-long lover of nature and the English countryside. He has been a biology teacher, writer and performer of guitar music, and latterly a computer programmer. He has walked through great swathes of Britain, Ireland and also the United States, France and Australia and is a talented landscape and nature photographer. He now concentrates on his photography and campaigning on environmental issues, and has previously published two books on the English countryside: Chiltern Landscapes and An English Village Idyll.

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      Norfolk Landscapes - Doug Kennedy

      Introduction

      This book explores Norfolk in photographs and descriptive text that reveals the story behind the image. Although the County’s highest point (Beacon Hill) has an altitude of only 105 metres (340 feet), Norfolk contains several distinct landscapes of great character which we visit in turn. Some of these, such as the Norfolk Broads and the North Norfolk Coast, are enormously popular as holiday destinations, whilst less well-known are the rolling sandy landscape of Breckland, the low-lying fens in the east, the gentle Waveney Valley and the agricultural centre with its great houses and pretty villages. Because the county was largely bypassed by the Industrial Revolution many towns and villages remain quite unspoilt and almost every view across the landscape contains at least one church tower.

      On our journey we encounter plenty of the huge open skies that Norfolk is known for, but also pretty corners where the light somehow brightens colours and heightens the atmosphere and sense of place. We visit towns, villages, farms, waterways and the coast, seeking out scenes and features that define the location and that live in peoples’ minds as icons of what Norfolk means. Wildlife thrives in the expanses of open water and countryside. Here are to be found many species of birds and dragonflies, some of which are migratory and a few that are unique to Norfolk, so several pages scattered through this book are devoted to these lovely creatures.

      We start our journey at Great Yarmouth in the south-east corner of Norfolk and explore up the River Yare and the Norfolk Broads, which is a varied low-lying landscape of waterways and broads (lakes) interspersed with farms, villages and even the occasional hill. This area is a magnet for boat-lovers who can wander through the many miles of winding waterways enjoying the lovely scenery and abundant wildlife. We then go to the county town of Norwich before meandering through the central agricultural area with its huge open fields, picturesque settlements and amazing great houses whose parks, sometimes including entire villages, were often laid out by important landscape designers.

      Thetford and The Brecks come next where heath, forest and twisted pines combine to make a unique landscape which is hard to farm because of the very light sandy soil. In the far south, the Waveney Valley forms the border with Suffolk and seems to take time at a slower pace than elsewhere. Then we come to the flat expanses of The Fens, which spread for huge distances to the east from Downham Market into Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire, cut through by the ramrod-straight rivers and drainage channels.

      Finally, we visit the North Coast with its amazing coastal marshes running from Holme-next-the-Sea to Sheringham, and strung together by a series of villages, most of which were once ports but are now beloved of yachting folk, walkers and birders. Immediately behind these is a chalk ridge that includes the lofty Beacon Hill and some great panoramas northwards across the coast and also over the agricultural hinterland to the south. This elevated region is dotted with more large houses and estates with some of the loveliest parks and gardens in England.

      The material for this book was collected whilst walking lengths of the Ferryman’s Way, Peddar’s Way, Weaver’s Way, the North Norfolk Coast Path and many other footpaths and byways, seeking out scenes and panoramas that have a true sense of place. It also involved trips by car where the author was seeking out a particular feature or type of landscape, often attempting to time visits to coincide with good light. However, having the North Sea on two sides, the weather can be very unpredictable, and a fantastic light over one village may well not be replicated a few miles down the road. I once waited for hours in a freezing bird hide at Cley-next-the-Sea for the sun to appear from underneath a cloud, only to have to run for the car park through wind-blown sleet. On the other hand, the weather on the morning I took the photographs of Holkham House and Beach was dull and damp and I was about to head home when suddenly the sun burst through with spectacular results.

      Of course, Norfolk has far more to offer than can be included in this book and, to a certain extent, what does appear has depended upon my happening to pass when the light was right. But the images cover the length and breadth of Norfolk at all four seasons, and have been chosen not only for their location and quality, but also for the way that they fit together visually. Hopefully this varied collection of photographs, together with the text, paints a colourful picture of Norfolk that both natives and lovers of the county will recognise and enjoy.

      The Norfolk Broads and Yarmouth

      We start in the south-east corner of Norfolk, on the coast at Great Yarmouth, and then wander past Breydon Water to the River Yare and into the Norfolk Broads. The Broads National Park is a mosaic of

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